Hurricane Irene

Well, Irene finally showed up. Strong winds and a crazy amount of rain. Hopefully people get spooked and stay the fuck home so I can have a slow night at work.

Well, it would seem that, once again, I opened my fucking mouth a bit too soon. Lost power at 4:30PM. Decided to go to work early- what the fuck? At least I can get a hot meal at work (for free).

Fun factoid: Very strong winds are quite scary at higher elevations- like when you're stuck in traffic at a bridge's highest point. No fucking joke, it was like going through a fucking carwash the wind was so strong. Water was coming back UP and OUT of the drains, and the bridge was fucking swaying WHILE TRAFFIC WAS AT A DEAD STOP.

On the bright side the parking lots were empty. Getting paid for doing nothing here I come!

Vermont has been hit hard.



My daughter's school is just behind and up a hill from the person who shot that video. The bridge and the building to the right of it are gone now. We're in Seattle, moving back to VT on Wednesday, and hoping the roads will be in good enough shape for us to make it back home. We live in Woodstock, which got thoroughly flooded, but luckily we're about half a mile uphill from the the river shown in that video. Shellie, you'll be happy to know that the Taftsville Bridge appears to have survived intact.

One weird aspect of the Ottauquechee flooding is that an estimated 200 propane and oil tanks ended up getting washed downstream and lodged in the Quechee Gorge, just below the bridge.

I work in White River Junction, VT, at the Center for Cartoon Studies, where we turned part of an old firehouse into the Charles Schulz Memorial Comics Library. Last I heard, the book collection had been successfully evacuated, but the building itself (right on the river) had been flooded, and a container freight car had lodged itself in the building's back side.

My garage door has a cord attached to a handle to disengage the door from the chain on the track and then you pull it open and shut like a non electric door. Should be pretty easy I would think.

Glad to hear your place is OK Jason. It sounds like Vermont got hit worse than just about anyplace else, with god knows how many roads washed out and probably more to come. I saw pics of Rt 4 between Killington and Rutland that were pretty severe.

oh man, i used to drive between Killington and Rutland is my youth. Killington used to have (maybe they still do), these summer bobsled-like tracks where you fly down a concrete track down the mountain in this luge-like vehicle where all you have is a handbrake. I used to take the turns way too fast and it would kick up and the wheels would come out of the track a bit. The manager gave me a severe talking to and a big warning. I got all intimated and played nice

Black Barney wrote: oh man, i used to drive between Killington and Rutland is my youth. Killington used to have (maybe they still do), these summer bobsled-like tracks where you fly down a concrete track down the mountain in this luge-like vehicle where all you have is a handbrake. I used to take the turns way too fast and it would kick up and the wheels would come out of the track a bit. The manager gave me a severe talking to and a big warning. I got all intimated and played nice

Partway down the page are pics of Rt 4 near Mendon, about halfway between the access road and Rutland. Also some pics of one of the lodges at the base of the mountain. That road is severely compromised. Look at the background and see how close the edge of the erosion is to the center line painted on the road.

www.killingtonzone.com/forums/viewtopic....f=1&t=32652&start=60

48 hours without power, but we're stronger for it. I made the kids eat raw meat to show them how much better technology makes our lives. Besides, it had been thawed for two days at that point so I was going to throw it away anyhow.

S.

Sagrilarus wrote: 48 hours without power, but we're stronger for it. I made the kids eat raw meat to show them how much better technology makes our lives. Besides, it had been thawed for two days at that point so I was going to throw it away anyhow.

Careful, or they'll R-U-N-N O-F-T.